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Some people might argue that teenagers should not have their jobs because it hinders them from concentrating on their studying. However, I believe teenage students should have experience of having jobs because it helps them choose the best major for them and get good grades at school.
For one thing, having work experience allows students to choose a right major when they enter a university. That is, by experiencing a work place they are interested in, they can find out whether they really like it or not, and then based on that decision, can choose a right major. For example, my frined Dagi did a part time job at Park's hair shop when she was 17 because she wanted to make sure that she is really in to hair designing before entering a hair design university. After 6 months of experience, she realized that she does not feel as happy as she expected when doing hair cuts and making people's hair. So she quit it and got another job as an assistant at a small company. She thought it suited for her and decided to choose a major related to being an assistant or secretary. She told me that if it were not for the work experience she had when she was a teenager, she might not have chosen the very right major for her.
Second, teenagers can do better at school if they have a job. This is because, since a student who work has to juggle both working and studying, he or she learns how to manage time. On the other hand, a student without any job thinks he or she has plentiful of time and does not use given time efficiently or preciously. To illustrate this point, a research from Korean Highschool Education Center has shown that students who work less than 15 hours a week get 20% higher grades than those do not work. An expert related to this study said that the result is related to time management. This clearly shows that working students are doing better at school.
To make a long story short,I firmly believe that teenagers should have jobs while they are students. That is due to the fact that they can better choose their university major, which is very important in their lives, and they can receive higher grades at school. The more you experience something, the more you get from it.
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